Booklet or folder.



No. 841,241. PATENTED JAN. 15,4907.

{ R. GARMAN. BOOKLET QRFOLDBR.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3, 1906;

RAYMOND H. GARMAN,

PATENT OFFIQE.

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOOKLET OR FOLDER.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND H. GARMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at 155 Winthrop avenue, Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Booklet or- Folder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is tomake an improved booklet or folder to enable the illustration of advertisements, designs, and pictures by placing parts of them on separate secondary leaves of the booklet, so by the use of several secondary leaves the whole object may be shown in one way and by turning part of said secondary leaves said objects will be changed or varied in some respects and features; and my invention consists in the features and details of construction and association of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved booklet, showing the same closed and showing some of the cuts or divisionswithin the booklet in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a perspective showing the inside of the outside portion. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the part intended to form theinside portion of my booklet, illustrating the leaf-flaps severed or cut into strips to form secondary leaves. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the inside of my booklet after the parts illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 have been placed together to form a complete booklet. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of my booklet, showing the same loosely folded or closed.

In making the preferred form of my booklet I take sheets or appropriate pieces of suitable paper, cardboard, linen, or similar flexible'material adapted to be printed on or receive illustrations. The one of these sheets intended for the outside of the booklet Iprefer to have continuous substantially without cuts or incisions, as indicated by A, and the other sheet, (indicated by B,) of size and adapted to be used as the inside. portion, I prefer to slit or cut from the two of its opposite edges parallel to the lines on which the booklet is to be folded. These slits or cuts I preferably extend from said respective edges a distance somewhat less than one-third of the total length across said sheet and in this way form secondary leaves 0, respectively extending in length nearly one-third of the width of the sheet, leaving approximately one-third of the area of the sheet throughout the central zone between the opposite edges Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 3, 1906. Serial No. 337.260-

]?atented. Jan. 15, 1907.

that have been cut substantially without severance and adapted to be pasted or otherwise suitably secured Within this zone to the corresponding inside central portion of the sheet A, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

I prefer to have the inner leaves of the booklet cut or slit as above described relatively at points so that the width of the secondary leaves caused by such cutting will (preferably) be less near the top and bottom point next nearer the center of the booklet, and, further, those still nearer the center will be narrower than the last-named or intermediate ones, in this way making the interior of the booklet with secondary leaves both at the top and bottom of the respective pages narrower than those somewhat nearer the central portion of the pages and those at the central portion somewhat wider than the ones intermediate in position on the page and with an internal central zone or portion comprising, substantially, one-third of the area of the central interior of the booklet without material rupture.

In forming the secondary leaves by cutting, as above described, they remain integral with the central portion of this sheet, and in consequence of this fact and, further, the fact that I secure this inside sheet within its central zone to the back or outer sheet, as illustrated plainly in Fig. 4., these secondary leaves are securely fastened to the outer sheet that form the back and cover of the booklet. The outer sheet forming the cover being with a continuous surface and unbroken or unruptured and the central portion of the inner sheet also being unruptured, it

turning or moving one or more of these secondary leaves it will either bring into view or obscure portions of the unruptured portion of the booklet directly under the particular secondary leaf or leaves turned. After the sheets A and B are secured together in this manner I prefer to fold the opposite sides of the booklet inward at F, substantially along the points of termination of the cuts in the sheet B, as illustrated, so these folding lines or creases F will extend closely along at the base or commencement of the several secondary leaves and enable them to be folded inward as the bookletis closed without creasing, wrinkling, or doubling them.

of the pages of the booklet than they are at a follows that there is an unruptured surface adjacent to the secondary leaves, and by ITO It will be seen that by placing illustrations, designs, or pictures on the several leaves and on the inside of the back or cover and also on'the unruptured central part of sheet B changes and variations may be effected both in the illustration in the central unruptured portion within the booklet and on the inner side of the cover by laying-one or more secondary leaves containing parts of illustrations' over either of these surfaces, and, fur' ther, by moving any one of the secondary leaves while they are collectively in position to show an object the object will be varied or changed to the extent of the portion illustrated by the moved secondary leaf and, further, to the extent of whatever may be shown on the surface directly under the moved secondary leaf.

Of course the sizes of the parts and arrangement may be changed somewhat and still come Within the scope of my invention, and I therefore do not wish to confine myself to these with great exactness.

What I regard as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a booklet or folder, a sheet of paper or equivalent flexible material comprising the outside cover, and an internal sheet of similar material, one secured within the other, said inside sheet being slit or divided from its side edges in a direction. toward the center of the sheet and transverse to the f0lding-line of the booklet; the slits extending a distance approximately one third. across the sheet, forming secondary leaves, and with a substantially unruptured central zone to said sheet, comprising approximately one-third of its extent, traversing transverse to the secondary leaves, said inner and outer sheets being secured together within the said central unruptured zone.

2. In a booklet or folder, a sheet of paper or equivalent flexible material comprising the outside portion of the booklet, and an internal sheet of similar flexible material, one Within the other, secured together through a central zone, said internal sheet being slit or divided from its sides or edges in a direction toward the center of the sheet and transverse to the folding-line of the booklet, the slits extending a distance approximately one third across the sheet toward the center, and forming secondary leaves integral with the sheet, and with a substantially unruptured zone comprising approximately one-third of the central portion of said sheet, extending transverse to the secondary leaves, and having folding creases or lines substantially transverse to the secondary leaves.

8. In a booklet or folder, a sheet of paper or equivalent flexible material, comprising the outer cover, and a part of it adapted when folded to form a leaf of the inner art of the booklet, and an internal sheet of exible material, one sheet within the other, the inside sheet being slit or divided from two of its side ed es in a direction toward the center of the s eet and transverse to the foldingline of the booklet said slits extending a sufficient distance toward the central portion of the booklet to form secondary leaves in length approximately one-third the width of the booklet, and the inner sheet provided with a substantially unruptured central zone between the base-line of the secondary leaves and being secured to the outer sheet within said zone.

4. In a booklet or folder, a sheet of paper suitable flexible material, one sheet within the other, said inner sheet being slit or divided from its side edges, in a direction to- Ward the center of the sheet and transverse to the folding-line of the booklet, said slits extending a distance approximately one-third across the sheet and in relative positions to form secondary leaves of greater width adj acent to the top and bottom of said sheet, than the secondary leaves next toward the central portion of said sheet, and secondary leaves at the central portion of said sheet of less width than those intermediate thereto; said inner sheet provided with a substantially unruptured zone between the base por- 5 tions of the secondary leaves, and the two sheets being secured together within said central zone.

5. In a booklet or folder, the combination of two sheets of flexible material secured together and adapted to be folded as a booklet, the inner sheet being divided into secondary strips, adapted to be folded or turned separately to cover or expose parts of the surface of the booklet. I

6. In a booklet or folder, the combination of two sheets of pliable material secured together and folded in the form of a booklet, leaves within said booklet cut into strips to form secondary leaves and adapted to be severally or collectively turned and laid in position over parts of said booklet to ob. scure said parts, or to be turned and removed from portions of the surface of said booklet to expose to view parts that are thus obscured.

RAYMOND H. GARMAN Witnesses:

ORRIN B. PEoK, LOUISE M. JENSEN. 

